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Dr Robert Bradshaw

Robert Bradshaw

Dr Robert L Bradshaw

PhD (Linguistics) 2022 James Cook University

MA (Linguistics), 1984, University of Washington

BA (Linguistics), 1982, University of California, Irvine

Contact

Robert L Bradshaw

7545 Webster Rd

Middleburg Heights, OH 44130-6602

USA

Telephone +1-216-392-7768

E-mail

robert.bradshaw@jcu.edu.au

robert.bradshaw@my.jcu.edu.au

robert_bradshaw@sil.org

Robert L Bradshaw is a Linguistic Consultant and Translation Advisor for SIL International, and has served in Papua New Guinea for 35 years. He has been involved in advising three language communities of Central Province, Papua New Guinea, in language development, as well as training and consulting many translation advisors in linguistic analysis, mainly of Papuan languages.

He holds an MA in linguistics from the University of Washington and a PhD in linguistics from James Cook University. He has done fieldwork in Papua New Guinea with interest in various aspects of linguistics, sociolinguistics and translation, including language acquisition, historical-comparative linguistics, lexicography and Papuan typology.

Research

Robert’s primary research includes the Southeast Papuan Goilalan, Kwalean and Manubaran families. His PhD thesis is entitled “A Grammar of Doromu-Koki: A Papuan Language of Papua New Guinea”. Research on the Doromu-Koki language (of Central Province; Southeast Papuan, Manubaran) was conducted from 2001-2019. Uare language (Central Province; Southeast Papuan, Kwalean) development took place from 2005-2011 and previous research included the Fuyug language (Central Province; Southeast Papuan, Goilalan) from 1988-2000.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

  • 1990. Fuyuge Background Study, Ukarumpa, SIL-PNG. MS.
  • 1991. Organised Phonology Data for the Fuyuge language, Ukarumpa: SIL-PNG. MS.
  • 1992. Fuyuge Grammar Essentials, Ukarumpa: SIL-PNG. MS.
  • 1994. Dialect survey report of the Fuyug language of Central Province, Papua New Guinea, Ukarumpa: SIL-PNG. MS.
  • 1996. Fuyug Language Programme Plan, Ukarumpa: SIL-PNG. MS.
  • 1996. Fuyug phonology essentials, Ukarumpa: SIL-PNG.
  • 1996. Organised Phonology Data - Fuyug Language (Revised), Ukarumpa: SIL-PNG.
  • 1997. Orthography paper for the Fuyug Language, Ukarumpa: SIL-PNG.
  • 1998. Interclausal Relationships in Fuyug, Ukarumpa: SIL-PNG. MS.
  • 1999. Cohesion and Participant Reference in Fuyug Discourse, Ukarumpa: SIL-PNG. MS.
  • 2000. Dictionary of the Fuyug Language, Ukarumpa: SIL-PNG. MS.
  • 2002. Orthography and phonology description – Doromu (Koki) language, Ukarumpa: SIL-PNG.
  • 2004. Sociolinguistics and literacy study – Doromu-Koki language, Ukarumpa: SIL-PNG. MS.
  • 2006. Doromu-Koki Development Markers and Topic Marker. Paper presented in Discourse workshop, Ukarumpa: SIL-PNG. MS.
  • 2006. Social organisation paper – Doromu-Koki language, Ukarumpa: SIL-PNG. MS.
  • 2007. Doromu-Koki di ago. ‘Doromu-Koki language.’ Dictionary trial edition, Port Moresby: SIL-PNG. MS.
  • 2007. Doromu-Koki Scripture Use Programme Plan, Ukarumpa: SIL-PNG. MS.
  • 2007. Doromu-Koki worldview, Ukarumpa: SIL-PNG. MS.
  • 2007. Fuyug and Doromu-Koki – two southeast Papuan languages. Paper presented at Linguistic Society of PNG, Madang, Papua New Guinea. MS.
  • 2007. ‘Fuyug Grammar Sketch’ in Data Papers on Papua New Guinea Languages, Vol. 53, Ukarumpa, SIL-PNG.
  • 2008. Doromu-Koki dialect survey report, Ukarumpa, SIL-PNG.
  • 2008. Doromu-Koki grammar essentials/sketch/phonology essentials, Ukarumpa, SIL-PNG. MS.
  • 2010. Doromu-Koki Organised Phonology Data paper (revised), Ukarumpa, SIL-PNG. MS.
  • 2010. Orthography and phonology description – Doromu-Koki language, Ukarumpa: SIL-PNG.
  • 2011. Doromu-Koki Programme Plan, Ukarumpa, SIL-PNG. MS.
  • 2012. ‘Doromu-Koki Grammar Sketch’ in Data Papers on Papua New Guinea Languages, Vol. 58. Ukarumpa, SIL-PNG.
  • 2016. Doromu-Koki Organised Phonology Data paper (revised), Ukarumpa, SIL-PNG. MS.
  • 2019. Language of well-being in Doromu-Koki. Brief presentation at the Language and Culture Research Centre (LCRC) – James Cook University (JCU) Language of well-being symposium, 24 April.
  • 2019. Doromu-Koki Adjective Class. Paper presented at LCRC– JCU Roundtable workshop, 31 July.
  • 2019. Versatile postpositions in Doromu-Koki: The case of rofu. Paper presented at Linguistics Society of Papua New Guinea conference Promoting Unity in Diversity: Celebrating the Indigenous Languages of the South Pacific, Port Moresby, 24 September.
  • 2020. Doromu-Koki differential subject marker: between syntax and pragmatics. Paper given LCRC– JCU Roundtable workshop, 9 July 2020.
  • Bradshaw, Robert L.
  • 2020. Questions in Doromu-Koki. Paper given LCRC – JCU Roundtable workshop, 23 September.
  • 2020. Between grammar and discourse: Differential subject marking in Doromu-Koki. Australian Linguistic Society Conference Building Bridges video paper, 14 December.
  • 2021. Doromu-Koki—English Dictionary. Languages of the World/Dictionaries 77. Munich: LINCOM GmbH.
  • 2021. Frustrative in Doromu-Koki. Online poster presentation at Austronesian and Papuan Linguistics Conference (apll-13), 11 June.
  • 2021. Frustrative in Doromu-Koki. Paper presented at Linguistics Society of Papua New Guinea conference Promoting Unity in Diversity: Celebrating the Indigenous Languages of the South Pacific, Ukarumpa, 22 September.
  • 2021. A typology of Frustrative marking in New Guinea languages. Paper presented at the Language and Culture Research Centre – James Cook University seminar, 29 November 2021. MS.
  • 2022. Some perspectives on orthography issues in Papua New Guinea: Orthographies and community identity. Paper presented at the Language and Culture Research Centre – James Cook University seminar, 21 March 2022. MS.
  • 2022. ‘Visual perception in Doromu-Koki’ in Kraska-Szlenk, Iwona and Melike Baş (eds.) Embodiment in cross-linguistic studies: Eye. Leiden: Brill.
  • 2022 (forthcoming). ‘Contact-induced changes in clause-linking in Doromu-Koki: New genres, new strategies’ in Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y., Robert L. Bradshaw, Luca Ciucci and Pema Wangdi (eds). Celebrating Indigenous Voice: Legends and Narratives in Languages of the Tropics and Beyond. Anthropological linguistics, Volume 5. Berlin: De Gruyter.
  • 2022 (forthcoming). ‘Clause chaining and other means of clause linking in Doromu-Koki’ in Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. and Hannah Sarvasy (eds.) Clause Chaining in the World’s Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press.